Improvement in carriage-irons



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. EN

HENRY K. PORTER, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN CARRIAGE-IRONS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 146,093, dated December 0, 1873; application iiled February 3, 1873.

i Wrought-iron rods and cast-metal brackets having a semi-tubular iange formed at one end for the reception of the rod, to which it is secured by rivets, brazing, or other means, While the opposite end of the bracket is formed to Vbe attached to the seat in any desired manner; second, in constructing the corner iron with the short arm formed of cast metal, with a recessed lip with pivots cast thereon, for the reception of the longer arm, which is secured to the short arm by said pivots, which enter holes in the long arm, and are riveted therein.

Figure lis a top or plan view of the seat rail and foot, a portion of the socket of the latter being broken away to show the rivet. Fig. 2 is a vertical section taken on line O P, Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a perspective view ofthe cor ner iron. Fig. 4 is a vertical section taken on line K L, Fig. 3 and Fig. 5 is also a vertical section taken on line M N, Fig. 3.

l, Fig. l, represents a Wrought-iron rod, and m is a cast-metal foot or stud, secured to the seat by a screw in hole n., while the opposite end is formed with a se1nitubu1ar flange, e, i

which receives the rod l, and is` secured eithery by means of the rivets o o, or by being soldered or brazed thereto. p, Fig. 3, is the short arm of the corner iron, which has an offset angleplate, o, upon which the pivots s s are cast, and which pass through holes .in the long arm t, and are riveted therein, as shown in Figs. 4

and 5. The plates p and t being of equal thicky Having thus described my invention, what l. The combination of the wrought-metal rod l and the cast-metal stud m, having the right-angle semicircular-grooved ange e, constructed and combined substantially as described and shown.

2. The combination of the cast-metal angle or arm p, formed with the oiset lip 'r and riveting-pivots .5' s, and the straight arm t, constructed and combined substantially as de scribed and shown.

HENRY K. PORTER.

Witnesses:

T. W. PORTER, EBEN I-IUTGHINsoN. 

